My name is Vinnie Kinsella (which you probably figured out already), and I am a publishing professional living in the Pacific Northwest. My varied work as a writer, editor, document designer, project manager, and college instructor has afforded me the opportunity to help numerous book publishers, independent authors, news organizations, small businesses, and nonprofit organizations produce high quality print and online publications. I offer an array of publishing-related services, including publication consultation and project management for self-published authors, editing, and document design. You can learn more about service on my services page.
My first encounter with the publishing process was in the second grade, when I worked with fellow students to write and illustrate a storybook about the adventures of an ice-cream loving giraffe. Most of my favorite childhood memories include books: helping younger students learn to read them, painting murals of book covers on the side of my elementary school wall to promote literacy, rapping about a book in lieu of a traditional book report. However, it wasn’t until college that my love for books made way for a career in publishing.
While pursuing an undergraduate degree in writing, I took the only writing-related jobs I could find at the time: editing my college’s newspaper and tutoring in my college’s writing center. I quickly fell in love with the one-on-one interaction with authors these jobs provided. When telling my academic adviser about the delight I took in these jobs, her simple response brought everything into focus. “That makes sense,” she said. “You’re a natural editor.”
Before long, I was working on a master’s in book publishing from Portland State University and doing freelance writing, editing, and design. Shortly after that, I was teaching editing courses in the very master’s program I graduated from. On the side, I am the publisher of the online poetry journal, Four and Twenty.
As a reader, I am a lover of creative nonfiction and poetry. When not working on a book project, I’m most likely out on a run or a bike ride. I am often spotted in one of Portland area’s numerous artisan coffee shops.
